Manual Items - Grading

If you have created grade items in the Gradebook Setup area directly (for items such as participation grades or a test students take in person and hand in to you), you can assign those grades in the Gradebook. You can also use this same method to overwrite a grade for any other grade column as well, even if it was automatically graded.

Step 1

Click on the Grades tab in the upper menu of your course

Image showing the Grades tab highlighted in blue

Step 2 A manual grade item column will have a small box to the left of the name of the column.

Click in the cell of the column in the student's row for whom you need to enter the grade.

Image of a sample student within a sample course highlighting the Sample Item field in blue

Step 3 Two boxes will pop up. Enter the grade into the left box with the solid outline (rather than the dotted outline).

Image highlighting the Sample Item field in blue

Step 4 After typing a grade in the left box, if you want to add some feedback about the update you made, you can do so in the right box. Students will see this feedback in their Gradebook area.

Click enter when you are done entering the grade and/or information.

Image showing a sample Grade and an example of text in the feedback field

Step 5 The cell will remain yellow to indicate that a manual grade was entered.

Image of a sample Grade showing the Yellow tinted field

Step 6 Students will see their grade and any feedback in their Gradebook area.

Image example of the students view
Note: this is the student's view of the grade and feedback.


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